Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-14
WEST HAVEN,

" ESA E1A NH.
 Coming Wedding of NIT. Howes, the Caterer West Haven Notes New Cottages.
 MT. O. Howes the caterer, who has so large
 circle of friends in West Haven, this city and Florida, is to be married next Thursday to very estimable Westfeld, Mass, lady,
 Mrs. S. Hayden. The lady was guest last
 summer of cottagers at the Rock. After the
 ceremony they take a wedding trip to the north, returning in about a week.
 At Superintendent w. W. Wards sawmill
 apple tree slabs of wood, which were pur-
 chased at once for immediate use as 'shad
 boards" by the Hill Brothers for the shad
 season at their Homestead.
 Walter Main has a new cottage nearly done on the street back of the Hill Homestead, south of Thomas street. Another new one is nearly erected just below, and Jo Allen, of Pennington, has nearly erected a bath house building on the shore near the foot of the horse railroad track. At MT. Howes' pavil- ion the old bath houses have been torn down and new ones have been erected. MT. Howes according to custom opens his pavilion and restaurant on Decoration day.
 GENERAL COMmITTEE MEETING.  Reports From the Committees on Music and Tr0nsportatiOn--The RaiI- road Companies Agree to Make Spe cial Rates-The Sons of Temperance to Furnish Barrels of Water on Line of March-FrOsramme of DedIcasory Exercises changed.
 The general committee on soldiers monu- ment met in the aldermanic chamber at the
 City Hall last evening and listened to the re-
 port of the committee transportation. Chairman Welles reported that his commit
 tee had conferred with the railroad compa-
 nies of the State in regard to special excur- sion rates from various points to New Haven and return on the 17th of June, and that all the railroads had agreed to give special rates on that date. The New York, New Haven | and Hartford road, the Derby and Nauga- tuck roads will make their tickets good for l the 18th, 17th and 18th of June. MT. John Mccarthy reported that the Sons of Temper ance would provide barrels of water along ! the line of march on the day Of the dedica- tion and had appointed comm ittee to carry out the plan. The committee voted to ac- cept the offer.
 The Mayor announced that meeting of the l park commission would be held in his office at the City Hall at 9 a. n. Monday morning | to discuss and consider the advis ability of erecting coping around the monument. He said the plans and specifications could be | looked over to day at his office.
 S. E. Merwin said in answer to Mayor York's inquiry as to music: The committee on music has asked for $1 900 for bands. | The Grand Army has already made provis- l ions for it's own music. The civic societies, children and others who participate in the parade. General Greeley said that as chief oho1h he inO fn frv as easy and pleasant to all as possible. If the bands came under his jurisdiction he would see that they were distributed in such Q manner that the music would be catered in perfectly satisfactory manner.
 Professor Jepson, of the committee on vo- | cal music, reported as follows: The public ! school Memorial Guard has been organized as follows: Two companies in the High school and one each in the ten school dis | tricts, making total of twelve companies | The committee is also happy to state that the | following named firms have contributed do- | nations towards the equipment of the bat | talion: P. J. Cronan, knapsacks; Futile, ! Warehouse & Taylor, the lettering on the same. Frank Brown agrees to furnish cross | belts. Hazel, Curtiss & Bushnell and l. | Lounsbury will furnish tin cups, and B. A. Brooks, the halter, agrees to secure uni 1 form caps at cost price without extra | charge for services in fitting, etc. The com
 mittee is now anxiously looking for some public spirited citizen to furnish each boy | with staff and flag. The committee have | also considered the proposition relating to in- | viting the German singing societies to take part in the dedication programme. It has I been suggested that the programme is already | quite lengthy, nevertheless the committee are ! unanimously of the opinion that it would add
 very much to the interest of the occasion to have one national song rendered in German by the combined German societies and with | out wishing to dictate would suggest the l "Watch On the Rhine."
 It was voted to empower General Greeley, the chief marshal, to appoint his own staff and the commanders of the divisions It was also voted to change the programme of exercises on dedication, to take place as
 follows: First, anthem; second, invocation; third, unveiling fourth, oration; the other exercises to follow in the order mapped out.
 General Merwin stated that he had re- l auested the selectmen to put into the call of tion for dedication the clause 'sand for com | pletion of monument" This was done in
 order to have the coping erected. Some l little money is needed to put the sur roundings in proper shape. He had no doubt but at the meeting on Tuesday the | It is only after this meeting," said he, that | the committees can get down to work. As vet, they don't know how much money they
 are to receive. The committees will push
 along rapidly with the work assigned after l next week.
 c. B. Foster stated that he expected that
 there would be about eight hundred mem
 bers of civic societies present from out of l the city.
 COMMITTEE ON STANDS.
 The committee on stands met in the gener-
 al committee room and appointed Chairman Moves E. Edwards, George M. Grave and 1 Commissioner J. F. Gilbert subcommittee
 to look over the ground and to report to the general committee.